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ˈsnuff-box
[snuff n.3 1.]
1. a. A box for holding snuff, usually small enough to be carried in the pocket.
1687Miége Gt. Fr. Dict. ii, A Snuff-box, une Tabatiere. 1707Refl. upon Ridicule 207 The Snuff-boxes she has in Pockets, and the Profusion she makes of Snuff. 1711‘J. Distaff’ Char. Don Sacheverellio 4, I have heard the Lid of a Beau's Snuff-Box crack in his Pocket. 1786F. Burney Diary 25 July, She had brought the Queen's snuff⁓box, to be filled with some snuff. 1837Dickens Pickw. ii, Colonel Bulder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff⁓boxes. 1846McCulloch Brit. Empire (1854) I. 293 Those beautifully jointed and varnished wooden snuff-boxes, long in universal demand. 1882W. Ballantine Exper. xxiii. 221 The owner of the snuff-box is the proprietor of the hall.
b. musical snuff-box, one fitted with mechanism capable of playing tunes.
1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Passion & Princ. ix. III. 139 It was actually handed round the room like a musical snuff-box, or any other indifferent trinket. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour l, The child, who had been wound up like a musical snuff-box, then went off as follows. 1881Grove's Dict. Music III. 542.
c. A puff-ball or similar fungus; usually devils' snuff-box (see devil n. 25 c.).
1883–in Hampshire and Somerset glossaries.
2. slang. The nose.
1829P. Egan Boxiana 2nd Ser. II. 251 He came up with a frown..and, without the slightest ceremony, opened with a fillip on the Gipsy's snuff-box. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green i. xvi, There's a crack on your snuff-box.
3. attrib. and Comb., as snuff-box maker, snuff-box painting, snuff-box wright; snuff-box bean, a species of sea-bean used medicinally, or the plant producing this; snuff-box gourd, a species of Lagenaria.
1714Lond. Gaz. No. 5268/10 Snuff-box-maker. 1765H. Walpole Lett. (1840) V. 68 Snuff-box-wrights, milliners, &c. 1884Athenæum 9 Aug. 183/3 After a trial of snuff-box painting at Mauchline, Leitch came to London. 1884De Candolle's Orig. Cultivated Pl. 245 Other less common varieties have a flattened, very small fruit, like the snuff⁓box gourd.
Hence ˈsnuff-boxer, a seller of snuff-boxes.
a1871De Morgan Budget Parad. (1872) 153 Fifty years ago a fashionable snuff-boxer would be under inducement..to have a stock with very objectionable pictures. |